diff --git a/mdadm.changes b/mdadm.changes
index 0fb73a7..87ee8ee 100644
--- a/mdadm.changes
+++ b/mdadm.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Dec 11 13:52:25 UTC 2018 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Update description. Remove references to historic software.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Dec 10 01:52:35 UTC 2018 - Neil Brown <nfbrown@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/mdadm.spec b/mdadm.spec
index 93b07d2..4d080fc 100644
--- a/mdadm.spec
+++ b/mdadm.spec
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(udev)
 PreReq:         %fillup_prereq /sbin/mkinitrd coreutils
 Recommends:     smtp_daemon
 Url:            http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-Summary:        Utility for Configuring MD Setup
+Summary:        Utility for configuring "MD" software RAID devices
 License:        GPL-2.0-only
 Group:          System/Base
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
@@ -55,9 +55,7 @@ Patch1001:      1001-display-timeout-status.patch
 %define _systemdshutdowndir %{_unitdir}/../system-shutdown
 
 %description
-Mdadm is a program that can be used to control Linux md devices. It is
-intended to provide all the functionality of the mdtools and raidtools
-programs but with a very different interface.
+mdadm is a program that can be used to control Linux md devices.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -a1
@@ -73,13 +71,13 @@ programs but with a very different interface.
 %patch1001 -p1
 
 %build
-make %{?_smp_mflags} CC="%__cc" CXFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -Wno-error" SUSE=yes
+make %{?_smp_mflags} CC="%__cc" CXFLAGS="%{optflags} -Wno-error" SUSE=yes
 cd Software-RAID.HOWTO
 sgml2html Software-RAID.HOWTO.sgml
 sgml2txt Software-RAID.HOWTO.sgml
 
 %install
-make install install-systemd install-udev DESTDIR=%{buildroot} SYSTEMD_DIR=%{_unitdir} UDEVDIR=%{_udevdir} SUSE=yes
+%make_install install-systemd install-udev SYSTEMD_DIR=%{_unitdir} UDEVDIR=%{_udevdir} SUSE=yes
 rm -rf %{buildroot}/lib/udev
 install -d %{buildroot}%{_fillupdir}
 install -d %{buildroot}/usr/share/mdadm